Borerian

English Etymology From en Borer ian. Adjective Of or relating to the linguist Hagit Borer. en 2008 Minjeong Son; Peter Svenonius Microparameters of Cross-Linguistic Variation: Directed Motion and Resultatives Natasha Abner; Jason Bishop Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics Somerville, MA Cascadilla Proceedings Project 978-1-57473-428-7 https://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/27/paper1854.pdf 395 We have developed an analysis of one example of cross-linguistic variation which follows that Borerian line of thinking, but at the same time, due to a universal base of underlying syntactico-semantic categories, may still provide an explanatory limit on the bounds of variation. en 2020 Contrast and Representations in Syntax Contrast and representations in syntax: Introduction Bronwyn M. Bjorkman; Daniel Currie Hall Bronwyn M. Bjorkman; Daniel Currie Hall 978-0-19-881792-5 Oxford Oxford University Press 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=jz78DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 While the earlier Principles and Parameters framework conceived of parameters as UG-provided toggle switches with language-particular settings, the Borerian approach, as pursued in feature-driven Minimalist syntax, instead understands parameters in terms of the inventory of features active in a particular language (and perhaps also the structural positions in which those features occur). en 2021 Robert Truswell Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text Languages 6 article 59 6 10.3390/languages6020059 This reflects the thinking behind Yang’s (2002) ‘Variational Learner’: that competition is between individual parameters (from a Borerian perspective, specifications of properties of functional heads), not between whole grammars. en eponyms